Alice hargrave

Alice Hargrave is a photographic / video artist, based in Chicago. Her work reflects on the notion of impermanence: environmental insecurity, habitat loss, and species extinctions. Hargrave recently collaborated with The Cornell Lab of Ornithology NY, to create her project Pink Noise/Last Calls: portraits of threatened migratory birds using sound waves of their last calls in the wild, which recently won a 2019 Individual Illinois Arts Council Artist Grant, as well as a finalist award in the National Print Center Awards.

Paradise Wavering her monograph (Daylight Books 2016) and extensive solo exhibition traveled to multiple venues, including The Hyde Park Art Center Chicago, University Galleries at Illinois State University, Gallery 555 Boston, and The Center for Fine Art Photography Fort Collins CO, and Pictura Gallery Bloomington IN.

Hargrave’s work is included in several permanent collections such as The Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago Artist Book Collection, The Ruttenberg Collection, Nuveen Corporation, and Hyatt Corp. Her work is exhibited widely: The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Yale University Art Gallery, The Smart Museum, The Tweed Museum of Art MN, Art Metz, France, The Griffin Museum of Photography MA, 516 Arts Gallery Albuquerque NM, Newspace Center for Photography Portland OR, among others. She has received many awards, been published and reviewed in several journals such as Huffington Post, BBC News, and ARTNET. Hargrave, a full time professor at Columbia College Chicago, decided to teach part time while pursuing commissions and conservation work.

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CNL: What is one thing you feel you have learned or experienced as an artist that you feel you can share with your peers and emerging artists in the field? 
AH: For me I like to take risks, experiment, go with those sometimes fortuitous accidents, and I think it’s best to not get too locked into preconceived outcomes. I try to nourish my art everyday in some way however seemingly insignificant it may seem or be on some days …

CNL: What’s something that you’re seeking from others in the field to support your practice?  
AH: I have loved collaborating with other artists who work in different media so I would say informal dialogue, and collaboration. I think we do this quite well in Chicago vis à vis what I hear from different cities.

CNL: What’s a piece of advice you would share with other artists or cultural producers in your field?
AH: Build community and camaraderie - and “Keep on keeping on ….”